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Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a cloud-based software that helps businesses leverage existing database engines to automate administrative tasks such as hardware provisioning, data backup, patching, failure detection...
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- Industry: Arts & Crafts
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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an interesing tool
Pros
this freature of amazon can be pretty useful on your data analysis
Cons
is pretty hiden, sometimes you forgot its exist

- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Best managed relational database service in the market!
Choosing RDS was the best strategic decision we made. We saved a lot of time to focus on our company's growth instead of dealing with operations.
Pros
We have been using AWS RDS with MySQL since 2015. It is the best option we encountered in the market to set up, operate and scale a relational database in the cloud. Management Console is really easy to use. You can create, restore and scale any size of database in a matter of minutes. You should however be familiar with the technical term AWS uses. Be careful when you choose between General Purpose and Provisioned IOPS types.
Multi-AZ feature is a life saver if you have a database that cannot tolerate any downtime.
Point in time recovery saved us a lot. Also RDS takes automatic backups regularly.
You should also try Amazon Aurora which is an engine compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL. AWS built Aurora for itself and the underlying technology is mind blowing.
Cons
You should be careful with the price of Amazon RDS and keep an eye on CloudWatch and Trusted Advisor. It gets expensive depending on usage but still it is worth not to struggle with operational problems.
- Industry: Government Administration
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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Amazon RDS how is useful
Its can be scaled a push of button. So i prefer this.
Pros
Its saves time of their employees, productivity increased and cost of data management is reduced
Cons
Their cost is high, because they make monopoly and less competitive.
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- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Manage database services solution for AWS Cloud
We use RDS with PostgreSQL and MySQL as our backend database for our Application hosted in AWS, they are located in a private VPC and only allow access from our backend subnet.
Pros
RDS allows us easy to create and manage a relational database for our Application hosted in AWS. It supports many different instance type, engine and scale option to select. RDS works well with VPC to keep our database private and only allow to access from specify sources. It has a lot of monitor metrics such as CPU utilization, free storage, freeable memory and read/write latency and well notification system to keep track of our database. Excellent backup, snapshot and restore support by AWS
Cons
Manage RDS's parameter is quite complex since it does not have good UI support. It lacks support tool to run SQL command directly from AWS console

- Industry: Telecommunications
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Amazon RDS for storing Model logs as a database
Overall experience using Amazon RDS is good, we are able to store the model logs in Amazon RDS from EC2 instance and same data we are utilising to create the dashboards in Amazon QuickSight.
Pros
The best thing about Amazon RDS is, it automatically take backups of the database which increase more reliable systems so basically it supports recovery at that point.
Cons
The least liked thing about Amazon RDS is there is no guarantee of hardware performance and also sudo access is to be provided.

- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Database provisioning without maintenance efforts
Personally I am very satisfied by this solution as it makes Database hosting totally painless. Also, Read-Replica and Multi-AZ features, makes it very hard to have a downtime on your side. If you're searching for an HA solution for your Database, consider Amazon RDS.
Pros
Amazon RDS is a very good product if you need a Database solution in your software architecture. Scaling and ensure performance without bottlenecks is definitely a plus value that Amazon RDS offers. Easier to integrate across other AWS products, but also on standalone software through DNS names and port, you can easily spawn a Database in a couple of clicks. Amazon RDS offers also Read-Replicas and Multi-AZ totally transparent to you, which makes it kind of unique in database hosting.
Cons
Price: everybody is well aware of how much AWS costs in the long run. Amazon RDS solution makes no difference, but if you are well aware of the costs, then this shouldn't stop you from trying and using it.

- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Amazon RDS - The Relational Database Service
Amazon Relational Database allows us to encrypt your data using the Amazon Web Key Management. We manage our databases on Amazon Virtual Private which isolate the service and keep running without trouble. Monitoring of AWS RDS with Amazon CloudWatch is easy and describes details in metrics with no extra cost. Amazon Aurora is one of the cost efficient RDS.
Pros
Amazon Relational Database Service is one of the best product of AWS. The best thing in it is easy to deploy,patch,backup,security and administrate . The distributed architecture provide render the high scalability feature in it. The hardware upgrade is also easy and less time consuming with AWS as it comes with the embed features of it. After switching to the AWS RDS there is a less administration activities needed on managing the databases. Best feature in it is, if you are new to the RDS it also provides the best practices and recommendations. Managing the database snapshot with the help of Amazon S3 is also very convenient.
Cons
Amazon Relational Databases management is easy but it's little tricky also as if you mess up the security group setting to vast, it's not an easy task to solve the puzzle. Best practices is to keep the security group setting simple and as per recommendation by AWS.

- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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As every AWS service, is best in class database as a service
Pros
I use this service daily and it is really powerful, especially if you need to manage hundreds of databases without having to worry about anything. pointing in time backup is the most powerful feature ever.
Cons
For the target audience of the service there are no cons, perhaps a little costs for smaller projects.

- Industry: Banking
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Good managed RDS service
Pros
Performance Insight is the best, it helps us to identify slow queries in our system. Also, since this is managed service, we don't have to worry too much about uptime.
Cons
Since AWS RDS offers a lot of features, I usually lost when navigating the UI. Having the ability to create a custom dashboard for each user role can be helpful.

- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Go-to solution for database hosting on AWS
Pros
We're using Amazon RDS PostgreSQL.
Our database use case is pretty trivial, so we're entirely satisfied with RDS experience.
Database is fast and efficient, very easy to scale by changing instance types, adding more disk I/O, or spinning up read replicas. Backups do not have significant performance penalty.
With some careful planning it is very easy to migrate between different software versions.
Reserved instances make it a very compelling offering.
Cons
It gets expensive, but if you consider the fact that you don't need to deal with many daily operational issue, it's well worth the price.
You can only add storage capacity (no storage downsizing possible without a complex migration process).
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Monthly for Free Trial
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Good Product
Pros
I tried it but it just was not what I was looking
Cons
Our business is too small for this product
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Flexible and reliable data base suite on the cloud
It's up to our expectations and in many ways surpasses what an on premise database can give you
Pros
Easy deployment
Easy management and monitoring
Affordable price
Cons
Lack of replication options
It do not have a scheduler to keep a replica updated at a desired time
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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A very flexible database
Pros
I like how it scales seamlessly and can add new fields
Cons
Nothing I dislike will continue using it as it is very flexible
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Super simple managed database solution
Quick and repeatable deployments, wide range of DB flavors, fully managed and supported by AWS.
Pros
AWS provides a fully managed database solution covering a number of DB technologies, so most deployments can utilize this product. MySQL, Postgres, MSSQL, Oracle, MariaDB, are all there, as well as AWS's own Aurora high performance DB.
Automated backups, with 5 minute point in time recovery is provided out of the box at no additional cost, as is software patching. If you require high availability spanning multiple data centers, it's there too.
Cons
If there is a downside to AWS RDS, it would be that it does not cover every use case. In the MSSQL world, you cannot use SSRS or SSIS on RDS, so would need to look at MSSQL on EC2 instead .
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Forget about management!
As most AWS services, it is super useful when your business is in a phase where you need more services and less time to manage them. If you can pay for the maintenance maybe you prefer to optimize your setup managing it by yourself.
Pros
You can set it up with a few clicks only, and you get a fully managed database instance: forget about backups, OS updates, etc. It even sets up High Availability for you if needed, creating multiple nodes. You can choose the resources of the system (CPU, Hard Disk, memory) and other configurations (DBMS parameters, extra read nodes…)
Cons
You can only scale resources by using a bigger instance type (it means more CPU and more RAM) or replica nodes. Eg. you cannot set up a Raid disk configuration to improve I/O.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Review for Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS is very useful for anyone who wants to maintain a relational database in order to use resources on demand, since it is a cloud service. The system has a configuration and management interface that demands very little cognitive load for its use, providing several resources to access it.
Pros
Very easy to use, as the system provides resources to setup, operate and scale in a simplified way.
Cons
It doesn't support performance insight. As it is a cloud service, a cost-benefit analysis must be carried out to verify that it will not be too expensive to maintain the system.

- Industry: Hospitality
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Must have to DA team
Overall its must fro growing companies and their growth indicators are driven from data
Pros
We started using this as our DA Team size increased. Best is fast operations on data, connecting multiple databases and nice ui to write query to fetch data.
Cons
Costly. Duplicating and copying data take much time
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Always up, 0 headache database option
It's been a great experience so far. It also helps us manage a lot of our compliance risk living in a fully compliant datacenter.
Pros
We use Aurora, which gives us a lot of flexibility in scale and size. Not having to manage clusters or database consistency across a number of different machines is amazing.
Cons
RDS, and aurora, generally lags behind the current state of postgres, which comes with the territory.
Alternatives Considered
Google Cloud- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Amazon RDS - The Clear Winner
We use Amazon RDS for all of our database needs. We use it for our transactional (OLTP) and datawarehousing database needs.
Pros
Amazon RDS is Amazon's solution to hosted database services in the cloud. The console is easy to use and provides a ton of functionality with the click of a button. They have CLI and other API's that makes it easy to automate processes such as backup and recovery.
Cons
Microsoft products are supported but latest features are late to be added. Amazon likes to push their own products and slower adopt new features of SQL Server.

- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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RDS as a database for Web Applications
Pros
It has met all our requirements regarding costs and storage. We observed no downtimes. Once set up, we did not have to manage it at all. Really enjoyed the backup functionality.
Cons
Deployment was quite hard as for most of AWS infrastructure, but once you get over initial struggles it becomes relatively easy
Alternatives Considered
Amazon DynamoDBReasons for Switching to Amazon RDS
Previous experience with AWS.- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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A feature-packed database management system
We had a good experience using the product both for SQL server and PostgreSql. Once we passed initial hurdle of setting it up, we were able to take advantage of all the product had to offer.
Pros
Amazon RDS provides all features of a modern RDMS and it takes it further by securing your RDS instance using IAM which improves access and security.The backup feature ensures that replicas of data are maintained in cases of data loss.
Cons
One drawback is that it can be quite tricky to fully set up. The docs are easy to follow but you have to dig deeper to set up some feature that one is used to. A good example is setting up your RDS instance to allow connections from public IP addresses.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Fantastic Managed Databases
Using RDS has been great. Before we rolled our own MySQL servers and actually was bottlenecked by them in a big release. RDS opened the pipes and helped us support a lot of connections. It’s also 10x easier to manage.
Pros
RDS makes deploying a MySQL or Postgres cluster a breeze. Their Aurora fork of MySQL allows for even more performance boosts. Auto scaling is made easy. Back ups are made easy. RDS makes everything easy.
Cons
Pricing can be a bit steep if you need their r3 server series.

- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Brilliant database service with scalability
Very positive. We've never had any downtime and our database is reliable and performs well.
Pros
I like that I don't have to worry about my database as much - RDS takes care of all of the details. Security, scaling and uptime are all baked in to the service.
Cons
Like all AWS products, it has a learning curve to figure out. And you don't get unlimited control - if you want that you have to deploy your own database servers.

- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Amazon RDS
We have created MySQL instance in RDS and have been using it for 2 years via My SQL, and it had been a smooth and amazing experience in terms of data backup and the service provided by RDS.
Pros
Amazon RDS allows creating DB instances in a very few clicks with full customization like engine type, size of class required, connectivity, availability, and durability.
Also, all monitoring, eventing, and logs are very handy and displayed on the pictorial representation dashboard.
Cons
Honestly, Amazon RDS fulfills all the use cases for me and I haven't spotted any disadvantage in it.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Best Relational Database Service in the market til now
Overall its the best thing we did to choose AWS RDS, we are happy with the service amazon provides & we can focus on other issue leaving our database in amazon's strong hands.
Pros
He been using AWS RDS for like 4 years now, & its the best Database management tool we ever tried. Here its super easy to operate & scale your database. The console is easy to understand & somehow intuitive if you been working with databases in past. Multi-AZ feature gives you power if you cannot afford any downtime. RDS takes backup automatically so no worries of loosing any data.
Cons
Only dark side of AWS RDS is its pricing, do have a watch on what they billing you. Keep track of your usage on CloudWatch and Trusted Adviser. It may get expensive not not affordable if you use it without sincere approach.